The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05
AN uNLUoKy CHURCH MOUSE
He Attends n Methodist Prayer Meet
ing and Creates n Great Commo-

Ing ana lTcutes u 0Tcut COmInO-
ton.
A church mouse, although proven
bially poor, has never had its character
for meekness questioned. 1t has never
been limited that there were any I'M
righteous frivol ties about HIM. He has
been pitied for his poverty, facetiously
alluded to as having brave appetite
and some have even spoken in contempt
Of his Judgment in hanging around a
church anyway. But the mouse has
borne it all in silence.
During services when the congrega-
ton slept and the good minister went
on in the even tenor of his sermon,
the church mouse has come out and
made friendly calls at the pews down
the main aisle. MS if looking for char
ity from the well-fcd people. Nobody
ever supposed that this lonely mouse
would be so vicious as. to break up n
Methodist prayermeetng. These
meetings are usually noted for their
spirited charges upon the devil and his
hosts, and the noise of this engage
mcnt is generally more than poor
church mouse can conscientiously face.
But the White Plains mouse in the
Methodist church there was not that
kind of Il mouse.
When Brother Plat was praying in
f sharp and Brother Romers and Cox
and Jackman were encouraging him by
frequent EXPLANATIONS of approval
away down in G fiat, the mouse came
out to see what was going on. What
he saw and heard no doubt affected his
nerves and caused him to lose his head
and his reckoning.
concluded that he must get under COW
er. Taking the correct bearings for
Brother Jackman's right trousers leg,
which CAPPED welcome, the poor
church mouse ran in. 1t was q a fear
full mistake for it cost him his life,
frightened Brother Jackman so badly
that he imagined the old enemy had
him, and temporarily broke up Mr..
Plat'ts supplicaton.
When the mouse had turned the bend
of Brother Jackman's knee he exclaim-
ed, ooh, Lord!' in such n peculiar tone
that it arrested the proceedings for the
instant. When he supplemented this
exclamation with the earthly remark,
"Ouch!' and then, ooh, heaycn!' there
was faint suspicion that Brother jack
man was not giving his undivided at
tention to the remarks which Brother
Platt was uttcring, When the eyes of
the astonished brothers and sisters were
riveted upon Brother Jackman they be-
held an excited young man standing be-
fore them in a STOPPING condition, hold
ing on to some real or imaginary sub
stance, they were not certain which, on
The inside of his trousers leg, Just above
his knee. His face grew livd. and his
breathing was quick and hard. His
eyes were standing out like those of a
snail, and altogether he seemed per-
lurbed.
Those of the more thoughtful and eX-
perienced brothers, who had seen the
athletic exercises introduced by the
"Brooklyn boys" vaguely suggested to
themselves that this might be a rehear-
sal, but when Brother Jackman
Strengthened up his manly form and
shook his leg like n tidy cat when she
gets her dainty foot wet, and the poor
church mouse dropped out of the trou-
sers leg limp and ilabby on the Amin
ster carpet, the sisters shrielSed and the
more mature brothers remarked. Wen,
swouw."
The poor little church mouse was
dead,
There was no heart in the services
after this awful discovery, and when
Brother Platt had cut out good section
of his prayer, and Brother Lull had
pronounced the benediction prayer
meeting dissolved. And the poor lttlo
dead mouse was thrown out into tho
cold, cruel snow. -NeU York star.
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